This possibility I had entertained—that the original wording was stated as an alternative—was confirmed when I saw the hadith in Zawāʾid al-Bazzār (p. 164), where he transmitted it through ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ḥakīm.

Khalūq is a well-known blended perfume, made from saffron and other kinds of fragrance, in which red and yellow predominate. It was prohibited only because it is a women’s perfume, as stated in al-Nihāyah.

A junub is a person required to take a ritual bath as a result of intercourse or the emission of gushing fluid. What is apparently meant here is one who habitually neglects to bathe after major ritual impurity, and thus spends most of his time in that state. This indicates his scant religiosity and the depravity of his inner state, as Ibn al-Athīr said. Otherwise, it is authentically established that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, would sleep while in a state of major ritual impurity without touching water, as I have established in Ṣaḥīḥ Abī Dāwūd (223).

1805 — “There are three whose supplications are not answered: a man who has a bad-tempered wife yet does not divorce her; a man who is owed money by another man yet does not have witnesses to it; and a man who gives his property to a financially incompetent person, although Allah, Most High, has said: ‘Do not give the feeble-minded your property.’”

Ibn Shādhān narrated it in al-Mashyakha al-Ṣughrā (57/1), as did al-Ḥākim (2/302), through two chains from Abū al-Muthannā Muʿādh ibn Muʿādh al-ʿAnbarī, who said: “My father narrated to us: Shuʿbah narrated to us, from Firās, from al-Shaʿbī, from Abū Burdah, from Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī,” attributed to the Prophet. Al-Ḥākim said: “It is authentic according to the criteria of the two Shaykhs, though they did not record it because the companions of Shuʿbah stopped this hadith at Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī.” Al-Dhahabī concurred.